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Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves
— Bill Anderson
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
— James Russell Lowell
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
— Jonathan Franzen
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
— Tony Ardizzone
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
— Nadine Gordimer
Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.
— Aaron Shepard
The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.
— Doris Lessing
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you
didnt know was in you. — Larry L. King
There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine.
— Varric Tethras
The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.
— Ndiritu Wahome
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
— Michael Stutz
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
— William Faulkner
What's the best part about writing a book?Finishing it. — Rick Riordan
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
— Nell Freudenberger
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
— Fran Lebowitz
The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.
— Shannon L. Alder
The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.
— Christos Tsiolkas
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
— Arthur Miller
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
The best writing is when one writes from the soul
— Ndiritu Wahome
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.
— Stephen Malkmus
This is the best time to be an author.
— Geraldine Solon
Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.
— Jennifer Weiner
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
— George Berkeley
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
— Russell Banks
The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
— Walt Whitman
Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.
— Jami Attenberg
The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.
— Renee Conoulty
The hardest things to write are often the best things to read. And the most deserving to be written.
— David Alejandro Fearnhead
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
— Langston Hughes
The best kind of day is a writing day
— Buffy Andrews
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
— Neil Gaiman
Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
— Terry Southern
The best writing is rewriting.
— E.B. White
All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
— Carla H. Krueger
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
— Tom Robbins
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
— Rupert Brooke
Writing is the best anti-depressant.
— Fierce Dolan
Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
— Norm MacDonald
When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
— Stephen King
Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.
— Raymond E. Feist
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
— Brian A. McBride
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes - when we write small to say something big.
— Anthony Shadid
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.
— Manuel Rivas
There are many advices on writing. The best I know is stop reading them and start writing
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.
— Brian Helgeland
I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun.
— Alan W. Harris
If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.
— Aldous Huxley
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
— Jean Craighead George
The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.
— Michael Scott
The best writing reflects the author's ideas and communicates them clearly to the reader.
— Steve Dunham
Writers will happen in the best of families.
— Rita Mae Brown
I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.
— Norm MacDonald
The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them.
— Solomon Woytowich
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
— Bailey Vincent
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
— Jeff VanderMeer
You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.
— Stephen King
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
— Jared Diamond
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
— Christopher Buckley
The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.
— William Zinsser
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
— Pete Townshend
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
— Stephen King
I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.
— Lawrence Block
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
— Winston S. Churchill
